From May 1 through June 30, 2026, three restaurants at JR Tower Hotel Nikko Sapporo are hosting a restaurant fair called "Early Summer Garden Breeze," offering dishes made with seasonal ingredients and fresh herbs. The fair spans the hotel's 35th-floor dining venues and the 1st-floor lounge, with each spot presenting its own seasonal menu.
Restaurant & Bar "SKY J" – Garden Breeze Panorama Buffet
On the 35th floor, Restaurant & Bar "SKY J" is running a lunch buffet featuring seasonal vegetables and herbs in a colorful spread of Western dishes and desserts. Guests take in views from 150 meters above the city while dining.
Seared Menuke Fish with Ethnic Sauce
A chef prepares a live cooking dish each month—for May, that means seared menuke fish with a Southeast Asian herb sauce. The buffet also includes chilled sweet shrimp and mini tomato pasta with basil sauce, blanched squid with green onion and sansho pepper sauce, and a chocolate mint mousse among the sweets.
Chilled Sweet Shrimp and Mini Tomato Pasta with Basil Sauce
Chocolate Mint Mousse
- Price: ¥3,600 (tax included; no service charge for the buffet)
- Hours: 11:30 AM–3:30 PM (last entry 2:30 PM, food served until 3:00 PM)
The buffet lineup rotates regularly, and the live cooking dish changes monthly—June will feature a different preparation.
Sky Restaurant "Tanchou" – Seasonal Double-Tiered Box Lunch
Also on the 35th floor, Sky Restaurant "Tanchou" serves a seasonal lunch set: the "Seasonal Double-Tiered Box – Early Summer Blessings." The two-tiered lacquer box is filled with dishes showcasing early summer ingredients such as gyoja ninniku (wild garlic), scallops, and fava beans, and comes accompanied by a matcha parfait.
Seasonal Double-Tiered Box – Early Summer Blessings
The first tier holds nine small dishes including seasonal sashimi, simmered cherry salmon and potato with sansho, poached gyoja ninniku with scallops, and asparagus with jade-colored sauce. The second tier features rolled egg with aosa seaweed, silver salmon, herring with ginger, fava beans, and simmered pork, along with green pea rice and pickles.
- Price: ¥3,800 (tax and service charge included)
- Hours: 11:30 AM–3:00 PM (L.O. 2:30 PM)
The Lobby Lounge – Sweets and Afternoon Tea
On the hotel's 1st floor, The Lobby Lounge is presenting three seasonal additions during the fair period.
Pavlova – Early Summer Exotic Style
A light coconut meringue shell holds layers of custard and lime soufflé glacé, topped with kiwi and melon for a refreshing, tropical-leaning dessert plate.
Pavlova – Early Summer Exotic Style
- Price: ¥1,500 (tax and service charge included)
- Hours: 1:00 PM–5:00 PM (L.O.)
Lemon Mint Herbal Tea
A lemon and peppermint herbal tea blend, offered as a relaxing post-meal option.
Lemon Mint Herbal Tea
- Price: ¥1,200 (tax and service charge included)
- Hours: 9:00 AM–7:30 PM (L.O.)
Garden Afternoon Tea Set
A three-tier afternoon tea set built around an "early summer garden" theme, with sweets and savories incorporating herbs and seasonal fruits.
Garden Afternoon Tea Set
Tier 1 – Sweets: Blancmange with pistachio, strawberry and basil macaron, melon mousse, jasmine and lychee mousse
Tier 1 – Sweets Plate
Tier 2 – Savory: Asparagus and bacon pound cake, chicken galantine, edamame mousse with squid and pea shoot marinade
Tier 2 – Savory Plate
Tier 3 – Savory: Shrimp cutlet slider, mapo rice croquette with green onion sauce, seafood and green pea gratin; served with assorted breads and a basil scone on the side
Tier 3 – Savory Plate
- Price: ¥3,800 (tax and service charge included; 120-minute free drinks included)
- Hours: 1:00 PM–5:00 PM (L.O.); 2-hour seating
- The 12:00 PM–2:00 PM slot is available by reservation (limited seats) via the official special page
Event Overview
- Period: May 1 (Friday) – June 30 (Tuesday), 2026
- Venues: JR Tower Hotel Nikko Sapporo — 35F Restaurant & Bar "SKY J", 35F Sky Restaurant "Tanchou", 1F The Lobby Lounge
- Inquiries: TEL 011-251-2222
- Reservations: https://lp2.jrhotels.co.jp
Prices include tax and service charge (no service charge for the SKY J buffet). Menu contents may change depending on ingredient availability. Photos are for illustrative purposes.
